“Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.”

“I may be dead, but I ain't stupid.”

“I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them.”

“Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.”

“I wondered if my life was going to be one immersion after another, a great march of shallow, unpopular popular culture infatuations that don't really last and don't really mean anything. Sometimes I even think maybe my deepest obsessions are just random manifestations of my loneliness or isolation. Maybe I infuse ordinary experience with a kind of sacred aura to mitigate the spiritual vapidity of my life....no, it is beautiful to be enraptured. To be enthralled by something, anything. And it isn't random. It speaks to you for a reason. If you wanted to, you could look at it that way, and you might find you aren't wasting your life. You are discovering things about yourself and the world, even if it is just what you find beautiful, right now, this second.”

“Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.”

“I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.”